portupgrade confusing '-P' and '-p'?
Alex Zbyslaw
xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Mon Jun 19 13:14:11 UTC 2006
freebsd-questions at auscert.org.au wrote:
>Note from the above that portinstall is presuming that -PP was used and
>is not building the port. I can omit the '-p' and this stops the occurrence
>of this error, but then I don't get a package creation and that means I'll
>have to build this port from scratch every time I want to install it. I
>could force package creation of all ports, but this seems wasteful when
>only a few require this process. Is this a bug in portupgrade, or have I
>just used a conflicting array of arguments?
>
>
Don't know why what you are doing doesn't work, but you can create the
package afterwards with pkg_create. So no, you won't have to build it
every time.
--Alex
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